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Russia’s Quintura Raises $1 Million For Mobile Visual Search

May 19, 2010 6:01 AM

Russian visual search vendor Quintura says it’s raised $1 million to make in-roads in to mobile search. Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov didn’t disclose the investor’s identity. Why the money? “We are going to shortly launch Quintura search apps for mobiles (iPhone/iPad, Nokia/Symbian, HTC/Windows Mobile, HTC/Android, etc.) as well as turn…

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Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Search, quintura

Rise of Russians: Rambler Bidding For ICQ; Quintura in Sale Talks With LexisNexis & ProQuest

Feb 15, 2010 6:42 PM

The race to buy IM service ICQ from AOL (NYSE: AOL) is heating up. Last week came the news about some possible buyers: Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies, which has investment in Facebook and Zynga; South African media giant Naspers, which holds a 30 percent stake in China’s Tencent;…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Search, Companies, AOL, Countries, Europe, Russia, icq, quintura, rambler

Russia’s Quintura Says Google Infringing Visual Search Patent

Feb 10, 2010 5:09 AM

A Russian search engine is going after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and others it says are breaching its patent on a search technique. Quintura has been operating a visual search engine interface, which shows results in a relational, contextual cloud format, since 2005 and was last year awarded the latest of…

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Posted In: Legal, Patents, Search, Countries, Europe, Russia, quintura

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